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This is not correct.the actual version number, 6.2, illustrates it's a refined Vista
what strikes me is we have so few discussion about windows 8.
my prediction is, that no one will care. some people will say, oh right, here's an interface that looks like a media center or whatever, mixed with a grid of shortcuts.
other people won't think anything of it, they'll get to the browser or the music player and that's it.
a minority will spend dozens hours bitching on every forum about it ; another minority will remember how you used to tweak XP. they know that they can get it fixed in no time by downloading a free .exe, after the initial bitching.
on linux, you often need to edit config files (and actually hunt them), or fork a huge desktop environment, set up a team of 10 people and work for 1.5 year hacking, testing and maintaining it if you want your pet feature or UI aspect. (then maintain it for 3 more years)
on windows, you can't do anything by yourself. getting the source code and hacking on it can even end you in jail. BUT countless freewares can bring you every kind of pet feature, such as minimizing windows into tray when middle clicking the "_" button, and other ridiculous things. INCLUDING a start menu in windows 8.
that's for people who care ; hopefully someone who has strong enough feelings about the UI will download that damn 150KB program that a few million people will use and that will turn windows 8 into windows 7.
most other people won't care. especially because it's the second windows OS in a row that doesn't run slower and isn't less stable than its predecessor. (the actual version number, 6.2, illustrates it's a refined Vista, with the benefits of mature drivers too). even dumb users can feel when a system is slow and crashy ; here it will be blazing fast and rock solid, most times.
Also ins is in different places depending on the keyboard. I hat this s*it.Look at the placement of Ins/Ctrl. Del is no better.
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So driving the various API implementations under the DirectX umbrella or providing the easier to use development environments doesn't constitute support?
There's only one correct layout:
2 reasons why its betterif youre doing hundreds of ctrl-c ctrl-v after each other your hand is gonna be much more strained than 100s of alt-c alt-v
Carmack stated that while he has more respect for Microsoft than others do, he has some doubts that the new touch-based UI in Windows 8 (formerly known as Metro) will be successful. That said, he also admits that he is "kind of excited" at seeing a Surface tablet.
Overall, Carmack said that he is "pretty darn happy" with working on Windows 7 and he would be happy if Windows 8 didn't actually exist, saying that there is nothing in Windows 8 that he is looking forward to.
Last time I checked upgrade was $15:my only problem would be blowing 100 euros on it